ID: tis the season to remember that activated charcoal can render oral birth control ineffective
I thought you were trolling at first, but nope, this is legit.
https://www.pandiahealth.com/blog/does-activated-charcoal-affect-birth-control-pills/
The article you link to does not show any effect of activated charcoal on ovulation in women who use oral contraceptives. Not saying it’s a good idea to eat charcoal, but the study didn’t find an effect.
Not sure why anyone would troll about something like this, but also never trust random people on the internet, especially on medical advice, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks for adding sources
Had a cousin eat some spooky bread and found out the hard way what going cold turkey off her depression meds felt like. It was a rough couple days to get her back to baseline.
Ooof, that’s bad, could potentially be fatal. Take care out there, fellow medicated people!
There’s stuff out there that can just make the pill ineffective? You’d think this would be known more widely.
There are several. Grapefruit is another example that comes to mind.
And I agree, these things should be much more widely known. But now you know!
Since when do people eat activated charcoal? Am I missing something here?
It’s frequently used to make food appear black. It has some legitimate uses but food shouldn’t be one of them.
Yet another dumb trend that completely passed me by.
Since they started giving birth orally.
Years ago it was a trend to put activated charcoal in stuff like toothpaste and milk based coffee drinks.
Still is for toothpaste at least
Why burn your food for that harsh crunchy texture? Just eat activated charcoal instead, no need to spend all that time and money burning food, just pure taste sensation!
Y’all been adding activated charcoal to your drinks? I mean, dyed sugar is the only other thing I can think of to have that same ‘look’ to it but still, if all my garnish options sucked I’d just pour the drink without a garnish.
Good for you. Plenty of others do consume it though (you probably have too, without realising. It isn’t just added to drinks like the photo might suggest), and I’m sure they’d appreciate the heads up.
At first I thought this was about blowjobs.
O.o. What’s with the brackets around the A in aware?
Be ware (because spooky)/be aware (because PSA), it’s just a play on words…
I swear I’m never going near the stuff, lest I’m fully committed to giving oral birth!